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Cross Wires: Thursday headlines
The latest Catholic news
Pope Benedict XVI urges trust in God‘s loving providence in dark times.
Strathclyde Police probe sectarian hate mail sent to Gail Sheridan just weeks after husband Tommy was sent to prison.
Every devout Catholic in England and Wales is to be given a credit card-sized reminder to share their Faith with others.
In spite of Church concerns, MPs have overturned a series of defeats inflicted on the government’s welfare reform bill in the House of Lords, reinstating child benefit into the proposed cap on payments.
Call for a review of the Irish Government’s decision to close Ireland’s embassy to the Vatican; Irish bishops’ invitation to Pope to visit for the International Eucharistic Congress later this year under consideration.
Holy Father mourns passing of Philadelphia’s Cardinal Bevilacqua in the US.
A Catholic church in Nigeria still in mourning after a Christmas Day bombing by a radical Islamist sect has buried its dead.
An ancient Christian cemetery has been desecrated and destroyed by bulldozers in Sabarmati, near Ahmedabad, the state capital of Gujarat (western India).
OPINION
The power struggle in the Vatican: It is open season on the ‘mole’ who disclosed confidential documents. But behind the scenes there is a no-holds-barred fight between different factions.
– Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog
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